Maine AG swipes Trump administration over judge's funding-freeze ruling amid trans athlete battle

Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey took a swipe astatine the Trump medication connected Friday arsenic a national justice ruled that a backing frost to the authorities indispensable beryllium lifted arsenic the authorities refuses to amend its policies regarding transgender athletes successful girls’ and women’s sports.

District Court Judge John Woodcock issued the impermanent restraining order, which was suspended amid President Donald Trump’s combat with Maine Gov. Janet Mills implicit transgender athletes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the backing frost past week.

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks during the governors' moving league successful the State Dining Room of the White House connected Feb. 21, 2025. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"This impermanent restraining bid confirms the Trump Administration did not travel the regularisation of instrumentality erstwhile it chopped programme funds that spell to provender schoolhouse children and susceptible adults," Frey’s connection read. "This bid preserves Maine’s entree to definite congressionally appropriated funds by prohibiting an unlawful frost by the administration. 

"No 1 successful our law republic is supra the instrumentality and we volition proceed to combat to clasp this medication to account."

The USDA "must instantly unfreeze and merchandise to the authorities of Maine immoderate national backing that they person frozen oregon failed oregon refused to wage due to the fact that of the authorities of Maine's alleged nonaccomplishment to comply with the requirements of Title IX," Woodcock’s ruling read.

MAINE SCHOOL OFFICIALS ADDRESS REFUSAL TO BAN TRANS ATHLETES FROM GIRLS' SPORTS AMID DEADLINE FOR CONSEQUENCES

Gov. Janet Mills attends an lawsuit connected March 11, 2022, successful Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

The medication was besides "barred from freezing, terminating, oregon different interfering with the authorities of Maine's aboriginal national backing for alleged violations of Title IX without complying with the legally required procedure."

Maine has refused to comply with Trump’s enforcement bid to prohibition biologic males from girls’ and women’s sports. Trump initially vowed to chopped national backing to the authorities if it were to garbage to comply with the bid during a Feb. 20 speech. 

Maine officials filed a suit against the USDA connected Monday pursuing the agency’s determination to frost backing to the state.

The authorities accused the USDA of "withholding backing utilized to provender children successful schools, childcare centers, and after-school programming arsenic good arsenic disabled adults successful congregate settings," an statement the justice agreed with. The justice noted that the frost was owed to Title IX violations, but it restricted the quality to "provid[e] meals to children and susceptible adults."

The Maine State Capitol successful Augusta (eyecrave productions via Getty Images)

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After Trump signed an enforcement bid to prohibition trans athletes from women's and girls' sports connected Feb. 5, Maine was 1 of the galore states that openly defied the order.

Fox News’ CB Cotton and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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